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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10.
Page
1. Discussion with Section H on the Plateau Gravels, &c., North Kent...... 651
(a) On the Geology of the Plateau Implements in Kent. By Professor
T. RUPERT JONES, F.R.S., F.G.S.
652
651
(b) On the Age of the Plateau Beds. By W. WHITAKER, F.R.S.,
F.G.S.
2. On the Traces of Two Rivers belonging to Tertiary Time in the Inner
Hebrides. By Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S.........
3. On a New Method of Measuring Crystals, and its Application to the
Measurement of the Octahedron Angle of Potash Alum and Ammonia
Alum. By H. A. MIERS, M.A., F.G.S......
.... 654
4. A Comparison of the Pebbles in the Trias of Budleigh Salterton and of
Cannock Chase. By Professor T. G. BONNEY, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. ... 655
5. On a Soda-felspar Rock at Dinas Head, North Coast of Cornwall.
By HOWARD Fox
6. Report of the Committee on Geological Photographs
655
656
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11.
1. Report of the Committee on Paleozoic Phyllopoda
650
2. Report of the Committee on the Eurypterid-bearing Deposits of the
Pentland Hills........
3. Preliminary Note on a New Fossil Fish from the Upper Old Red Sandstone
of Elginshire. By R. H. TRAQUAIR, M.D., F.R.S.
4. On the Homes and Migrations of the Earliest Forms of Animal Life as
indicated by Recent Researches. By HENRY HICKS, M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 657
5. On some Vertebrate Remains from the Rhætic Strata of Britain. (Third
Contribution.) By MONTAGU BROWNE, F.G.S., F.Z.S.........
657
6. On some Forms of Saurian Footprints from the Cheshire Trias. By
OSMUND W. JEFFS..........
658
MONDAY, AUGUST, 13.
1. Report of the Committee on Erratic Blocks ....
659
2. Report of the Committee on the High-level Shell-bearing Deposits of
Clava, &c.
3. On some Lacustrine Deposits of the Glacial Period in Middlesex. By
HENRY HICKS, M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.
4. On Sporadic Glaciation in the Harlech Mountains. By the Rev. J. F.
BLAKE, M.A., F.G.S... ...................
5. On the Probable Temperature of the Glacial Epoch. By Professor T. G.
BONNEY, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. ....................
660
6. On the Inadequacy of the Astronomical Theory of Ice Ages and Genial
Ages. By EDWARD P. CULVERWELL, M.A., F.T.C.D.
7. On the Mechanics of an Ice-sheet. By Rev. J. F. BLAKE, M.A., F.G.S. 661
8. Report of the Committee on the Elbolton Cave
662
9. Report of the Committee on the Calf-hole Cave......
. 662
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14.
1. On the Permian Strata of the North of the Isle of Man. By Professor
BOYD DAWKINS, F.R.S....
...... 662
2. The Carboniferous Limestone, Triassic Sandstone, and Salt-bearing Marls
of the North of the Isle of Man. By Professor BOYD DAWKINS, F.R.S. 662
3. Strictures on the Current Method of Geological Classification and Nomen-
clature, with Proposals for its Revision. By Sir HENRY HOWORTH,
F.R.S.
4. On the Pleistocene Gravel at Wolvercote, near Oxford. By A. MONT-
GOMERIE BELL, M.A.
5. On Prehistoric Man in the Old Alluvium of the Sabarmati River in Gu-
jarat, Western India. By R. BRUCE FOOTE, F.G.S.
663
.... 664
6. On the Shape of the Banks of Small Channels in Tidal Estuaries. By
Professor H. HENNESSY, F.R.S.
7. Report of the Committee on Earth Tremors
664
665
8. *Interim Report of the Committee on the Investigation of a Coral Reef... 655
9. Report of the Committee on Underground Waters......... 665
10. Report of the Committee on the Marine Zoology of the Irish Sea ...... 665
11. On a Keuper Sandstone cemented by Barium Sulphate from the Peak-
stones Rock, Alton, Staffordshire. By W. W. WATTS, M.A., F.G.S.
12. Report of the Committee on the Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius ....
.........
666
SECTION D.-BIOLOGY.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9.
1. Report on Investigations made at the Zoological Station, Naples............ 667
2. Report on Investigations made at the Laboratory of the Marine Bio-
logical Association, Plymouth .....
3. Report on the Zoology of the Sandwich Islands
4. Report on the Fauna and Flora of the West India Islands
5. Report on the Index Generum et Specierum
.....
... 667
667
Address by Professor I. BAYLEY BALFOUR, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., President
of the Section
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY.
1. On the Didermic Blastocyst of the Mammalia. By Professor A. A. W.
HUBRECHT, LL.D.
681
2. *On the Ancestry of the Chordata. By W. GARSTANG...
683
3. *On the Structure of the Integument of Polyodon. By W. E. COLLINGE 683
4. *On the Vertebræ of Amphisile. By W. E. COLLINGE.....
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY.
1. Two Irish Brown Algae. By Professor T. JOHNSON
2. Some Chalk-forming and Chalk-destroying Algæ. By Professor T. JOHN-
SON
3. On the Development of the Cystocarp in Polisiphonia nigrescens. By H.
PHILLIPS .....
684
4. An Exhibition of Algae. By A. CHURCH
1. "On the Relations of Protoplasm. By Professor E. VAN BENEDEN......... 684
2. On the Periodic Variation in the Number of Chromosomes. By Professor
E. STRASBURGER .....
3. *On Chlorophyll in Animals. By Professor E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. 634
1. On the Origin and Morphological Signification of the Notochord. By
Professor E. VAN BENEDEN
2. On the Carpus of the Greenland Right-whale compared with those of Fin-
whales. By Professor J. STRUTHERS, M.D., LL.D.
3. On the Species of Amphioxus. By J. W. KIRKALDY
685
'. DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY.
1. On the Phylogenetic Position of the Chalazogamic Amentiferæ. By Miss
M. BENSON ....
687
2. On the Hygroscopic Dispersal of Fruits in certain Labiates. By Miss D.
PERTZ ....
3. "On the Hybridisation of Orchids. By Dr. JAMES CLARK
... 687
1. Interim Report on a Digest of the Observations on the Migration of Birds
at Lighthouses
2. Report on the Legislative Protection of Wild Birds' Eggs
3. Report on a Deep-sea Tow Net ....
4. On Temperature as a Factor in the Distribution of Marine Animals. By
Dr. OTTO MAAS
5. Second Report on the Zoology of the Irish Sea....
688
6. On Marine Fish-hatching and the Dunbar Establishment of the Fishery
Board for Scotland. By Professor W. C. MCINTOSH
1. *On the Correlation between Root and Shoot. By Professor L. KNY ... 638
2. *On the Sensitiveness of the Root-tip. By Professor W. PFEFFER......... 689
3. *Exhibition of Diagrams. By Professor L. KNY
689
MONDAY, AUGUST 13.
1. Interim Report on Telegony
2. *On Some Difficulties of Darwinism. By Professor D'ARCY THOMPSON ... 689
3. On Social Insects and Evolution. By Professor C. V. RILEY
..... 689
4. On the Rôle of Sex in Evolution. By Professor JOHN BERRY HAYCRAFT, M.D................
5. On the Relation of Mimetic Characters to the Original Form. By F. A.
DIXEY, M.A., M.D.
6. *On certain Principles of Progressively Adaptive Variation observed in
Fossil Series. By Professor H. F. OSBORN...
691
692
... 693
7. On the Wing of Archeopteryx viewed in the Light of that of some
Modern Birds. By W. P. PYCRAFT
8. On the Nephridial Duct of Owenia. By Professor G. GILSON
1. On the Origin of the Sexual Organs of the Pteridophytes. By Professor
DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL
693
695
......
2. Notes upon the Germination of the Spores of the Ophioglosseæ. By
Professor DOUGLAS H. CAMPBELL
3. On Sterilisation and a Theory of the Strobilus. By Professor F. O.
BOWER, F.R.S.
4. *On a Method of taking Casts of the Interiors of Flowers. By Miss N. F.
LAYARD
696
5. *On the Function of the Nucleus. By Professor E. ZACHARIAS
6. *Exhibition of Diagrams. By Professor LEO ERRERA
1. On the Blood of Magelona. By W. B. BENHAM, D.Sc....
2. Suggestions for a New Classification of the Polychata. By W. B. BEN-
HAM, D.Sc.
3. *On Museum Preparations. By E. S. GOODRICH
697
4. On Random Publishing and Rules of Priority. By Thomas R. R. STEB-
BING, M.A.
5. On the Relations of the Cranial Nerves to the Sensory Canal System of
Fishes. By W. E. COLLINGE
698
6. *On Some Models of the Crania of Siluroids. By H. B. POLLARD
7. On the Epidermis of the Plantar Surface and the Question of Use-inheri-
tance. By F. A. DIXEY, M.A., M.D......
DEPARTMENT of Botany.
1. On Pachytheca. By G. MURRAY
2. The Structure of Fossil Plants in its bearing on Modern Botanical
Questions. By Dr. D. H. Scorr, F.R.S...........
3. *On a Thames Bacillus. By Professor II. MARSHALL WARD, F.R.S....... 698
4. *Influence of Light on Diastase. By Professor J. R. GREEN
608
5. *A Contribution to the Geological History of Cycads. By A. C. SEWARD 693
SECTION E.-GEOGRAPHY.
Address by Captain W. J. L. WHARTON, R.N., F.R.S., President of the Sec-
tion
1. †on Current Polar Exploration. By Colonel H. W. FEILDEN
699
711
2. On a Recent Journey in the Valley of the Euphrates. By D. G. HOGARTH 711
3. †On Russian Armenia. By Dr. A. MARKOFF.....
4. Montenegro. By W. H. COZENS-HARDY........
1. On the Bathymetrical Survey of the French Lakes.
2. On a Bathymetrical Survey of the English Lakes.
MILL, D.SC., F.R.S.E.
By E. DELERECQUE 712
By HUGH ROBERT
713
3. On the Currents of the Faeröe-Shetland Channel and the North Sea. By
H. N. DICKSON, F.R.S.E.
4. On Geographical Photography. By JOHN THOMSON .....
714
5. A New Light on the Discovery of America. By H. YULE OLDHAM, M.A.,
F.R.G.S.
715
6. Explorations in the Sierra Madre of Mexico. By OSBERT H. HOWARTH... 715
1. On a Visit to British New Guinea. By Miss FRANCES BAILDON .... 716
2. Report of the Committee on the Climatology of Africa ...........
716
3. †On a Journey in the Libyan Desert. By H. WELD BLUNDELL ............ 716
4. 'On Bhutan and the Himalayas East of Darjiling. By Colonel H. GODWIN-
AUSTEN, F.R.S.
717
5. On the Best Method of Aiming at Uniformity in the Spelling of Place-
names. By G. G. CHISHOLM, M.A, B.Sc.
1. †On Researches by the Prince of Monaco in the North Atlantic and Mediter-
ranean during the Summer of 1894. By J. Y. BUCHANAN, F.R.S.
2. Report of the Committee on Observations in South Georgia or other Ant-
arctic Island.........
3. On the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition. By A. MONTEFIORE... 717
4. On the Geographical and Bathymetrical Distribution of Marine Organ-
isms. By JOHN MURRAY, LL.Ď.............................
5. Report of the Committee on the Exploration of Hadramout
6. On the Geography of Lower Nubia. By SOMERS CLARKE, F.S.A.
7. 'On a New Representation of the Vertical Relief of the British Isles. By
B. V. DARBISHIRE
........ 718
718